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Last Updated: October 17th 2011
11/13/2011 08:38 PM
Considerations for Designing PowerPoint Backgrounds: Guest Post by Claudyne Wilder
Many people do not know that you can create more than one slide master in PowerPoint 2002 and 2003, and even your own slide layouts in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010. Do you use these features? You have an opportunity to create a new company background -- or maybe even several. Answer these questions before getting started.
11/06/2011 08:56 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Pattern Fills for Slide Backgrounds
Pattern fills are the last of the various fill options for slide backgrounds in PowerPoint 2010. Patterns in PowerPoint are two-color designs comprising lines, dots, dashes, checks, etc. PowerPoint includes 48 such patterns with names like plaid, weaves, shingle and zigzag. This tutorial builds upon what you have already learned in the Format Slide Background in PowerPoint 2010 tutorial, and shows how you can use a pattern fill for your slide background.
11/02/2011 11:21 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Picture Fills for Slide Backgrounds
Texture and picture fills for slide backgrounds have so much in common -- in a previous tutorial we explored how you can use a texture filled slide background. While the same picture can be used for both a texture or picture fill, the main difference is how the results vary. While a picture fill spans the entire slide expanse, multiple tiles of the same picture form a texture fill.
10/31/2011 11:46 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Texture Fills for Slide Backgrounds
When you want to format your slide background to look different than the readymade styles available in PowerPoint, you can certainly explore both options we have already covered in separate tutorials: solid or gradient filled slide backgrounds. In addition, you could also choose a picture or texture fill for your slide backgrounds. Note that both picture or texture fills work very similarly -- but choosing one option over the other can make the same background look so different. While a picture background results in your slide using a single picture as a backdrop, using a texture background can result in the same picture being tiled across the slide background. Also some pictures lend themselves better to being used as textures, especially if they are seamless.
10/27/2011 10:00 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Gradient Fills for Slide Backgrounds
Like previous version of the program, PowerPoint 2010 continues to provide an amazing array of options to format your slide backgrounds. We started this series of tutorials by exploring how you can Format Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2010. This tutorial builds upon what you have already learned, and show how you can add a gradient fill to your slide background. Gradient fills are typically blended fills between two or more colors that graduate from one color to another.
10/25/2011 09:22 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds
PowerPoint 2010 provides umpteen options for your slide backgrounds. While our earlier Format Slide Background in PowerPoint 2010 tutorial provided a generic walkthrough on changing the slide background, this tutorial builds up on the techniques and steps you learned in that tutorial. Your new slide background can be a solid color, a gradient, a texture or a picture, or even one of PowerPoint's built-in patterns. Within this series of tutorials, we will show you how you can choose from any of these background fill options. We start this series with this tutorial that explores solid fills for your slide backgrounds.
10/24/2011 02:22 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Format Slide Background
There are twelve default slide Background Styles available in PowerPoint 2010. Beyond that, you can always change the default background to a solid color, a gradient, a pattern or texture, or even a pattern. In this tutorial, you will learn how to change the default slide background in PowerPoint.
10/20/2011 04:39 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Slide Background Styles
Whenever you launch PowerPoint, you may typically see a single slide with a white background. Or if you open any of your existing presentations, the background of your slides may be in a different color depending upon the Theme that the presentation is based upon. You can always change this slide background to a picture, a solid color, a pattern, or even a gradient. However, before you think of all those options, do explore the twelve background styles that PowerPoint offers for every presentation by default. These styles are all coordinated and also designed to work well as a set of complementary backgrounds.